The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive. ' Another nod.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that.
I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.
We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.
One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise.
Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.
Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
